Career
He remains a well respected swimmer amongst the Western Australian and Tasmanian community, and holds a regional short course record in the 200 m individual medley. He also notched a bronze medal in the same stroke at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South of Korea, with a personal best of 2:03.06. Lucas qualified for the men"s 200 m individual medley at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:01.94 from the Olympic trials in Sydney.
He challenged seven other swimmers on the seventh heat, including top medal favorite Michael Phelps.
Lucas raced to seventh place by 0.37 of a second behind three-time Olympian Tamás Kerékjártó of Hungary in 2:02.12, but missed the semifinals by a hundredth of a second (001), as he placed seventeenth overall in the preliminaries. At the 2005 FINA World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Lucas rebounded another loss by missing the final of the 200 m individual medley, but urged to break a 2:02 barrier in 2:01.99.
Lucas sought his bid to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.